With resumption of International flights in Nigeria, youths have been cautioned against illegal migration to avoid endangering their future.
Speaking to journalists in Awka, the State Chairman of Nigeria Red Cross Society Professor Peter Katchy regretted that over the years many youths have fallen victims to human traffickers, smugglers and other criminals and suffered untold hardships in foreign Countries.


Paul Ezeoke reports according to recent study, Nigerian youths between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five constitute the greater part of the population in growing flow of migrants from the global South Countries in search of better life in Europe and other global North Countries with many of them traveling in violation of migration laws, norms and guidelines.


Professor Katchy regretted that increasing level of economic hardships unemployment and abject poverty in the country are encouraging Nigerian youths to endanger their lives across the sahara desert and Mediterrean sea into foreign countries with no or incomplete documents and often end up in the hands of human traffickers who enslave them or harvest their vital organs while most of the female victims are forced into prostitution with sad consequences.


He urged parents to be alive to their responsibilities of giving good quality education and skills to their children and wards to equip them adequately to be productive and resist the temptation of being lured to illegal migration.


Professor Katchy also called on the Federal Government to take more proactive measures against illegal immigrants who are now constituting serious threat to the Country’s security and socio-economic life.
Also speaking, a legal practitioner, Mr Kingsley Obasi called for strict enforcement of the country’s migration law and protection of the Nigerian territorial borders.


Mr Obasi reminded youths that life outside the country is not as rosy as often painted by their friends and urged them not to endanger their lives unnecessarily.

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